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Test 7 · ★ · Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet

A child wants a meal only because of the plastic toy. What is really happening?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: child · What happens: want, happen · To what, where: meal

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 280 «Illusions that fool the eye and adverts that fool the wallet» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: A child wants a meal only because of the plastic toy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 meal	det
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	obj
6	only	only	ADV	_	11 toy	advmod
7	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	11 toy	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 because	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 toy	det
10	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 toy	amod
11	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a child	a meal				because the plastic toy	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meal=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What is really happening?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happening	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happening	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 happening	advmod
4	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happening	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present · progressive							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

The restaurant gives the toys away for free, out of kindness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 restaurant	det
2	restaurant	restaurant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 toys	det
5	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gives	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 gives	compound:prt
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 free	case
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gives	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kindness	punct
10	out	out	ADP	_	12 kindness	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 kindness	case
12	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	present	the restaurant	the toys				for free	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent toy=Theme

Option 2

The toy makes the food healthier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 toy	det
2	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 food	det
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	healthier	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the toy	the food				healthy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material food=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The toy is part of the price and the selling plan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 toy	det
2	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 part	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 part	cop
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 price	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 price	det
7	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 part	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 plan	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plan	det
10	selling	selling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plan	compound
11	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 price	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the toy	part				of the price and the selling plan	tree rules

Option 4

The meal is cheaper than usual

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 meal	det
2	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheaper	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cheaper	cop
4	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 usual	case
6	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cheaper	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the meal					than usual; cheap property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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